Word: kennelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't have enough gumption to go 100 miles and get himself a job -I don't go for that. I've got a lot of sympathy for people where a sudden change catches them. But-I've always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself...
...hours the Denver White House flapped like an overcrowded dog kennel in an animated cartoon. But it did not panic. After a flurry of transcontinental phone calls, President Eisenhower issued a steadying statement: "I have never found him [Wilson] in the slightest degree indifferent to human misfortune . . . In spite of record peacetime employment, there are areas suffering from economic dislocations as the aftermath of war and inflation. Every one of these is engaging the earnest and persistent efforts of the Administration...
...down south when it gets a little cold," he said, commenting on those who were imported from the South last year and now find themselves out of a job. Thinking, perhaps, that he wasn't fully understood, he drew a little analogy: "Personally, I like bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs," he said. "The bird dogs like to get out and hunt for their food, but the kennel dogs just sit on their haunches and yelp...
Sestieri pressed on, uncovered about 25 kennel-shaped tombs, each six feet long by a yard wide. Outwardly identical with Greek tombs elsewhere in Paestum, these sepulchers were distinguished by livelier and peculiarly individualistic interior paintings of chariot races, departing warriors, gladiators. Sestieri's conclusion: the conquering Lucanians not only took over the Greeks' city, but pre-empted their tombs as well. Executed by Greek artists under Lucanian orders, the sepulchral paintings, he believes, indicate the existence of a previously unknown style of early Italian...
...Manhattan, a buff-colored two-year-old cocker spaniel, Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine, owned by Mrs. Carl E. Morgan, became the first of his breed since famed My Own Brucie (1940-41) to win the Westminster Kennel Club Show, top bench show in the U.S. ¶ New Zealand produced an added starter to the growing list of potential four-minute milers (Luxembourg's Josef Barthel, Australia's John Landy, the U.S.'s Wes Santee, England's Roger Bannister, Germany's Werner Lueg) when Murray Hallberg, a 20-year-old student...